mediatorial
Americanadjective
Usage
What does mediatorial mean? Mediatorial means involving, relating to, or resembling a mediator—a person who mediates or helps to settle a dispute or create agreement when there is conflict between two or more people or groups by acting as an intermediary or go-between for those parties. This process is called mediation, and it always involves a mediator acting as an impartial third party to guide the communication between the conflicting parties. Sometimes, mediation happens in an informal way. You might act in a mediatorial capacity to help two friends settle an argument. But mediation and related terms are perhaps most commonly used in more specific ways in formal situations, such as mediation between a company and its striking employees or mediation between spouses who are getting divorced. Example: I tried to take a mediatorial role to smooth things over between my sisters.
Etymology
Origin of mediatorial
Example Sentences
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When animals lost their religious prestige, their ambassadorial function gave way to the mediatorial function of gods and men.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
The mediatorial character and glory of Christ ought to be maintained.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
If so, how can he be in the mediatorial seat?
From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Bates, Joseph
The fact, that God admitted and promoted the rebuilding of the temple, was an actual declaration that the Levitical priesthood was reinstated in its mediatorial office.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
The mediatorial view of the Bible, or the view which mediates between the others.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
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